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Screening the USDA Glycine Soja Collection for Presence or Absence of a Seed Lectin 1
Author(s) -
Stahlhut R. W.,
Hymowitz T.,
Orf J. H.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1981.0011183x002100010030x
Subject(s) - biology , lectin , glycine soja , glycine , botany , horticulture , genetics , amino acid , biochemistry
The USDA Glycine soja Sieb. & Zucc. collection containing 559 accessions was screened for the presence or absence of a seed lectin. Nearly one‐half (49%) of the G. soja accessions were found to lack this seed lectin. The seed lectin from G. soja and the cultivated soybean [ G. max (L.) Merrill] exhibited antigenic homology and migrated to identical positions in polyacrylamide gels. This suggests that the lectins of the two species are very similar or the same. Accessions of G. soja lacking seed lectin nodulated normally when compared with accessions containing seed lectin.